Chapter 12 Allusions and other References All Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.” holed up“I CALMED MYSELF DOWN, CLEANED MYSELF UP, AND HOLED up in my room. I stayed there the rest of the day. ”
Chutes and Ladders
“He still looked up at me. “Want to play Chutes and Ladders?”
Russian Nesting Dolls
“He held up a painted figure of an intricately carved clown. Great. It had to be a clown. He removed the top, which revealed another smaller figure inside the first. “Oh, they’re nesting dolls.”
the civilized world “I’d avoided enough: facing life without Eddy and Gram, surviving the worst disaster to hit the civilized world. ”
Legos“Lucas pulled on my shirt. “We can do Legos now.” Fact of Life
“Were we so removed from the world of before that we would actually consider such things to be commonplace?Mundane? Another fact of life?
“How stupid is that? We have all the time in the world, years and years. Yet it’s all so urgent.”
“I tried to make my voice sound as kind as possible, not exactly a practiced skill of mine.”
“I sometimes wondered if the staleness of our existence would slowly suffocate us.”
“I resisted the urge to let my hair down and hide from the truth.”
"Curious fascination overcame the knot in my stomach.”
“I’d been a practicing selfish worm for so long. Basically my entire life.”
“ We still needed to live by rules of the old world, even if those rules didn’t exist anymore. They were a line that could not be crossed. For the first time that I could remember, I was going to take a stand.”
Allusions and other References
All Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”
holed up
Chutes and Ladders
“He still looked up at me. “Want to play Chutes and Ladders?”
Russian Nesting Dolls
“He held up a painted figure of an intricately carved clown. Great. It had to be a clown.
the civilized world
“I’d avoided enough: facing life without Eddy and Gram, surviving the worst disaster to hit the civilized world. ”
Legos
Fact of Life
God forbid: not immoral?”
Vocabulary and Concepts
commonplacemundanerepugnantmysteryimmoralgodless
Literary Devices
“I’d become a master at denial.”
“How stupid is that? We have all the time in the world, years and years. Yet it’s all so urgent.”
“I tried to make my voice sound as kind as possible, not exactly a practiced skill of mine.”
“I sometimes wondered if the staleness of our existence would slowly suffocate us.”
“I resisted the urge to let my hair down and hide from the truth.”
"Curious fascination overcame the knot in my stomach.”
“I’d been a practicing selfish worm for so long. Basically my entire life.”
“ We still needed to live by rules of the old world, even if those rules didn’t exist anymore. They were a line that could not be crossed. For the first time that I could remember, I was going to take a stand.”